benjirenji

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And hopefully these protocols are backward compatible so I can still use a limited feature set running an older version. I think this would be a big step towards avoiding any fragmentation.

I hate when software supports up to an arbitrary version number and if you just fake the version string in your client or framework it just works fine. Why set up arbitrary hurdles?

Largest funding for a government law enforcement organization and still can't afford a translator? Having a minor family member translate is never acceptable. That's why hospitals and other services hire translators. An org that by definition handles immigrants must expect such a requirement.

And don't come at me with "learn English when you come here". It's not their responsibility that the law gets enforced effectively and lawfully. It's ICE's and they fail horribly at it on a daily basis. They need to see consequences.

Open source is fine, but if we depend on badly funded one man projects with a maintainer about to burn out, we've created an extremely fragile system.

The argument is of course that anyone can just pick up a project, fork it and make it better, but we have to remain realistic how often a tech stack can survive a fragmentation of an important project. Compatibility and interoperability is vital.

This can and maybe even should happen once in a while, but if it happens too often it'll do damage to the userbase.

It's a second dark age approaching. It's slow, maybe not in our lifetime but with the enormous pressure of climate and demographic crisis add the regression of human cognition and destruction of researchable truth and you will get a collapse of the global economy and a shift in priorities (survival first) that will bring a dark age.

You don't need crimes or due process if you send them to an illegal prison. That's the whole point of an illegal prison.

With shit like this "protecting democracy" or "preserve our institutions" sounds so fucking hollow. "Protect our way of life" becomes a fascist dog whistle than just an actual desire for security.

Yup, if his world views are not contradictory it means the Utopia he talks about is not for everyone. He even may not properly be able to explain it, because he leaves out that crucial point that there's an underclass that will be exploited, managed, killed or whatever else is necessary to achieve his utopia for the few.

We should send him to the dark side of the moon where the Nazis belong to.